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Ana Maria Dascalu1,2, Dragos Serban1,3\*, Nikolaos Papanas4 , Peter Kempler<sup>5</sup> , Manfredi Rizzo6,7, Daniela Stana2 , Gabriela Roman8,9 and Anca Pantea Stoian10

1 Faculty of Medicine, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania

2 Ophthalmology Department, Emergency University Hospital Bucharest, Romania

3 IVth General Surgery Department, Emergency University Hospital Bucharest, Romania

4 Diabetes Centre-Diabetic Foot Clinic, Second Department of Internal Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Greece

5 Department of Medicine and Oncology, Semmelweis University, Hungary

6 Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

7 Department of Health Promotion, Mother and Child Care, Internal Medicine and Medical Specialties, University of Palermo, Italy

8 Department of Diabetes and Nutrition Diseases, Iuliu Hatieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

9 Clinical Center of Diabetes, Emergency Clinical County Hospital Cluj, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

10 Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases Department, "Carol Davila" University of Medicine, Bucharest, Romania

\*Address all correspondence to: dragos.serban@umfcd.ro

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